Word: departmentalizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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And it is a city that cultivates Southern mannerisms. The waitresses smile and drawl just that way. The blacks keep the government buildings clean, drive the buses, and increasingly, are the cops. The commercial downtown is a pastiche of Woolworths and cheap department stores. It was into this America that...
Zavelle emphasized that the overall "shrinkage rate" for the Coop-the percentage of inventory accounted lost through customer theft, employee theft, mispricing, and accounting errors-is less than two per cent, while the rates both for Boston department stores and for department stores nationally are closer to three per cent...
Early next week the Social Anthropology wing of the department will probably meet to see if they can reach agreement on any one specific proposal.
Consensus is vital because if the department's vote is close. Stauder will have difficulty jumping his second hurdle, the Corporation.
The Corporation normally rubber stamps the recommendations of any department in hiring policy. But the Stauder case has been exceptional, and the Corporationcould easily interpret any large minority vote against Stauder as a mandate for the Corporation to overturn the department's decision.